Home stretch

This morning we slept without an alarm until 7:30.  It was a luxury we haven’t had very often on the trip but we only had about 450 miles to drive today.  We found a Dunkin Donuts to fuel up before we left.  Unfortunately, for the second day in a row, a Texas DD delivered horrible coffee.  It was bitter and short on the sugar and cream I ordered it with.  I choked it down anyway for the caffeine benefit.

Most of the drive today was backtracking road we traveled already when we headed west.  Cindy actually did more of the driving than I did.  I spent most of the highway time blasting through countless waves of zombies.

The van mpg bounced back up into the 16’s after the piss poor mileage the day before which saw a 13 mpg.

I am so glad that I have been blogging and uploading pictures daily during the trip, to try to recall this monster trip after the fact would be a feat that far exceeds the capabilities of my deteriorating memory.

Tomorrow I hope to hit the road a little earlier.  The final drive back to Naples is longer than I thought, over 600 miles which will take around 9 hours to complete.  My goal is to be enjoying dinner under my own roof tomorrow night.  I have not even attempted to total how much I have laid out in gas on the trip, it would put an unnecessary damper on what has been a great adventure otherwise.  It will take me forever to balance the books once I get back home.